Episode 11: Kaig Lightner

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Lgbtq, Documentary, Queer, Personal Journals, Gender, Nonbinary, Society & Culture, Genderqueer, Transgender, Trans

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with Kaig Lightner (he/him), the founder of both Portland Community Football Club and Breaking the Gender Binary Consulting. Topics include:

Coming out as trans to young soccer players—and having the resulting video go viral.
Fighting sexism and harmful gender roles in kids’ sports.
Not feeling comfortable in the “middle space” of gender, despite feeling internally genderless.

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here.

Find Tuck on last week’s episode of Vegan Warrior Princesses Attack.

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we ask intrusive personal questions and hopefully
0:19.8	get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. I'm your host and resident
0:24.7	gender detective Molly Woodstock. Hey everyone. I hope you're doing really well. I'm exhausted and here are some
0:38.9	reasons why. Thursday with International Women's Day and we'll talk about that in this week. Thursday was a international women's day,
0:43.0	and we'll talk about that in this weekend gender.
0:46.0	But it was a lot.
0:47.0	Friday, I took a vacation day from my day job
0:50.0	and spent it in my closet
0:52.0	doing six hours of back to back to back to back
0:55.6	gender review interviews because I love you and I make a lot of bad decisions.
1:00.6	But honestly it was amazing and I'm really really
1:04.9	really excited to share all those interviews with you. Saturday, which is today, I know
1:10.4	you're listening on Monday, but it's coming from Saturday. What is time even?
1:15.0	Saturday I went to a farm sanctuary, I held a baby lamb, I cried about it, and then I came
1:20.3	home and realized that I hadn't even started making a podcast yet and also I forgot to sell
1:26.7	one of my ad slots so doing real well this week this week's episode is brought to you by our incredible Patreon supporters who
1:36.0	donate a little bit of money every single month so that when I forget to sell
1:39.5	ads I can still make a podcast and I just appreciate you so much. I know that there are like 50,000
1:47.0	patrons asking for your money and it means so much to me that you're willing to help support the show.
1:53.6	If you would like to help us continue to exist and grow,
1:56.8	you can head to Patreon.com slash gender
2:00.0	to become a monthly donor.
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